May 14, 2025 • 36 mins
Rob and Kelvin debate whether it’s good for the NBA that the last two champions (Boston Celtics and Denver Broncos) getting bounced out of the playoffs early is good for the league, tell us why the NFL’s International Series is just one big ruse, tell us why they have a bone to pick with Draymond Green today and take a trip out to Shekel City for Rob’s nightly bets.
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And man, what.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
A show we have for you today. And I know
a lot of people were like, Rob, the Pete Rose thing.
We want to hear your take. Whatever we're gonna get
to that. I'm gonna get into that. We'll talk about
our number three.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
In the show. So we'll do that. But first let
me welcome in my partner. He is Kelvin Washington. Yeah,
what up, man, welcome back? Thank you.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
I didn't realize you were going to graduation for a
mutual friend. Didn't realize that.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
How was it?
Speaker 5 (01:42):
It was absolutely outstanding And I do want to say
congratulations in mozeltof to Shamar Woods. Yeah, my guy, who
are I've mentored since his freshman year at Hampton and
he graduated with a law degree from ASU. He's as
their asup, worked at Sports Illustrated, MLB dot Com, the
(02:04):
New York Daily News, the Philadelphia Choir. He's run that
resume down, Ron Man, it's been impressive. But I'm really
really impressed and happy for Shamar.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
So it was great.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
That's why I was off yesterday at Arizona State's graduation.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
That was nice.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Man.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Yeah, yeah, he's good dude, good dude, So I'm happy
for him. So where'd you meet him? At ABJ? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (02:23):
An ABJ how many years ago? And uh just congratulated him.
Didn't realize that's where you were going. I just knew
you were going to graduation, didn't know it was his,
So that was really cool to see. But yeah, welcome back, man.
Meet ain't from held it down, but glad you're back. Glad,
you're safe, Glad, everything's good. So I'm ready rock and roll.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
Let's do it all right, Let's welcome in the Odd
Couple crew, because you wouldn't be able to do this
fine radio program without him. Rob g is our producer, okay,
Alex is our engineer.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Yeah.
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By the way, Manti Bolanos is at the ANC. That's right,
she'll keep us updated throughout the program.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Why is it so lit today? What in here?
Speaker 5 (02:58):
Everybody feel like it's like forty five? Then I walked in,
it was just everybody. Yeah, I don't know, that's more
than usual, or maybe because everybody's like congregating. Usually everybody's
in their own little cubby hole.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
And everybody's out. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
And Elijah that snuck in he already Okay, he's our social.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Media guru with it, Yes, trying to get some bait.
Change the subject a little bit.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
And Elijah is in studio today with us, so which
is always great to see Elijah and whatnot. So man, hey,
on this worship Wednesday, let's get right at it. And
as we know, the NBA playoffs are in full swing.
We're ready for the conference finals, getting ready. Teams are ready,
to move on. We got the Nicks and the Celtics.
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Yeah uh, and then Golden State could get knocked out
tonight against the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
And you don't like this new NBA?
Speaker 1 (03:53):
No, no, no, I don't dislike it, no, no, no,
you know I'm I'm their audience.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
I am a basketball junkie. I love it.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
But what I don't like is how some people are
trying to sell the idea that, oh man, there's so
much parody. We love it and we haven't had back
to back champions since the Warriors of twenty seventeen twenty eighteen,
and so everybody's all, oh man, this is good for basketball.
You never know, hey, Rob, Rob, you never know who's
gonna win this year. It's wide open. You don't want
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to wide open NBA run to the final stop that
everybody trying to sell me on that what you want?
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Because what do we always here? Man?
Speaker 1 (04:29):
I love the glory days. I love when basketball was
at its best. What decade eighties? What decades nineties? Well
let's break it down, Rob a little bit. In the eighties,
every finals either had the Lakers in it or the
Celtics in it, and either they wanted or lost it.
But they were in the finals, so you knew the players,
you knew the storylines. You love them or you hate them,
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but you tuned in. You love the rivalry between them,
or maybe you love the rival between the Celtics, and
you had the Celtics and the Pistons going at it,
or the seventy six is going at it. You like
the familiarity, you like you knew what you're gonna get,
the best of the best going at it, the best
players literally three time MVP and Larry Bird MVPs and
Magic Johnson.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
You knew you were gonna get that.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Then there was a little team, a blip in between
that also went to three straight finals. They won two
of the three. Eighty eight, eighty nine, ninety was the Pistons,
the bad boys. So again familiarity, going up against the
Lakers in eighty eight, going up against the beginning eighty
nine beating them, then going up as well ninety against
the Trailblazers. But you had that then you know who
won ninety one, two and three the Bulls. Michael Jordan
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decided to go play your favorite sport. He got That's
how you got in his ear and told him he
should go be a baseball player. He goes and plays baseball,
and the Rockets went back to back. Then the Bulls
come and win three more. And so my point is
we just we have it where we get the best teams,
we get the best players ala Michael Jordan in the nineties,
a La Jaquem Olajuan in the nineties as well ninety
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four and ninety five. And I think that's part of
what we've been missing, rob is having the last handful
of years, the rivalries, the beefs, the teams that you
kind of know, like the Warriors and Calves going at
it for that little four year stretch. And so what
the Celtics as they just start this game, and like,
if the Celtics lose, which looks like they very well could,
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and they don't even know if they would make it
to the Eastern Conference Finals, out the finals, if they
happen to have beat the Knicks, well then that we
would have another different champion, as they're the reigning champions
as we speak. And I was just thinking, like, I
don't know if that's as necessarily as cool as people
think about when they say, oh man, it's cool. You
never know who's gonna win. We got parody. I don't
think we want parody quite as much as we think
we do. I think we want teams that are good.
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But at the end of the day, I think we
want those two or three teams that we kind of
have been dependent on and seeing for the last several years.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
Totally disagree. I'm so bored with like the same old,
same o. And like recently we've had teams who've won
and it's been good. I don't know, Denver had never won,
and they they finally won, they would I don't think
that was bad. Yeah, you got when the Bucks won.
(07:07):
Then once since leu al Cinder, the Raptors had never won.
I mean, like so so this whole idea and now
as we look, it's just a changing of the guard.
And I don't think it's bad because some of these teams, Indiana,
this will be their second year in a row in
the Eastern Conference finals.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Maybe this is their their push where they're going.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
To push through finally, you know, get to a championship,
maybe even win a champions whatever it is, and maybe
they're starting something. Okay, Uh, the Timberwolves, if they can
get there again, that would be two years in a
row that they made it to the Western coast. So
it's not like they they haven't worked towards this. We
always talk about the NBA. It's a process. It takes
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you a couple of steps. We're not talking about uh
uh Detroit and Houston. If if they Detroit in Houston
were in it, then maybe I would buy into that.
But the teams that I'm looking at, and even in
the next case, last year they lost in seven games
in the second round where Indiana went to the Eastern
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Conference finals, and then they also picked up Kat to
boast of their thing, and and they want to take
the next step by going out and getting a player
like that Mickel Bridges. They've added pieces to get to
their next step. So we're watching the Knicks as a
as a step in progress. And and the teams that
are going to be left or in the conference finals,
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I'm cool with that. Who's the surprise, like the the
one the surprise I got a left field? If the
Pistons were in it and you knew they had no chance,
or Houston was in it, you know they gonna have
no chance. Why can't Indiana win? Why can't the Timberwolves win?
Like like, these are teams that have worked their way up.
So I think that this is a natural progression. I feel,
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watch anything. Here's here's what I don't want to see them.
I don't want to see the bad lakers. I don't
want to see They's thing Celtic.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Here's the thing though, had they been had they gotten
to the finals, clearly they wouldn't have been bad.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
So my point is, Denver, you brought them up. That
was cool.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Wait, great, then get back to the finals, Boston, great,
congrats they worked towards it. I agree they had been
working towards it. Get back to the finals. Now it
looks like Boston hadn't. But when they won, they hadn't
won since two thousand and eight, and they had.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
Their They went to the finals, they lost, and they
had their progression as well. So I get the history
of the Celtics, but from two thousand and eight to
twenty twenty four, right, which is a significant amount of time,
they weren't in that mix as far as winning, and
they had gotten closer and closer, but they hadn't won
in a wi That's my point.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Even you go back to that two thousand and eight
Celtics team, they would have gotten back to two thousand
and nine, but KG gets hurt. But they got back
in twenty ten. So my point is, you had those
teams Kobe, they go but three straight finals a game
with Powell and so they won two of those. My
point is we historically, this is more what we've had.
We had the shocking Kobe years. They go four out
of five years, they won three of the four. So
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the Spurs miss the year, come back, oh three, five,
O seven. My point is this is what we've had
in the NBA for decades where we have these And
so I'm not mad at different one. I'm saying Denver
get back. I'm that mad at Boston one.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Dems had the chance to get back to that. They're
not out of it. They're not out of it. They
haven't been eliminated.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
And my point is, Okay, they won, they got knocked
off last year, but they're still in the mix. They're
not out of it. And the same thing, there's a
lot of good teams and younger players. Maybe ant Man develops,
he finally gets his team there and now he makes
a run, and the Timberwolves.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Were in the mix every year or whatever.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
I just see this as progression, and I think it
is good for the NBA. Who wants to see the
same teams? I told you, But this like the Chiefs.
It's like like they maybe to the Super Bowl. I
was tired of the Chiefs. A lot of people were
tired of the Chiefs. But Rob you say, see different. Literally,
that's not the history of the NBA. It was the
Celtics the entire sixties in half to seventies. But that
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was that was It was sports though, right, But the
Yankees went every year the Celtics.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
What I'm saying, so we say was missing.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
With the NBA were literally.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
Listen to me, what's missing is good basketball. That's what
I'm missing. I don't have a problem if we have
a good series and it's Indiana against the Timberwolves, I
wouldn't be mad at that. I get to see ant
Man and maybe this and maybe Tyreese Halliburton develops into
the star that maybe we have been seeing.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
You're giving and that's the point. You're giving me a
bunch of maybies.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
When I had this, when I had the Warriors going
up against Cavs, what I knew, I knew Lebron was
arguably be the best player but don't there. And I
knew Kyrie, and I knew it Steph Clay, Draymond and
then Katie eventually that's what we've seen.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
So they're getting to get there. They weren't there. Lebron
didn't win for eight years. He had to get there.
Speaker 5 (11:56):
So Halliburton has to get there, ant Man has to
get there, and Michael Jordan has to get there.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
I don't understand there was an instant. You're missing the
point of what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
The Celtics are already there, so I'm saying they need
to get there this year.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
To walk get back to what I'm saying is.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
To continue what the point of how the NBA has
flown when you have dominant teams, because in the NBA
is different than NFL, it's different than MLB. If I
have a Steph Curry, well for the next seven, eight
nineteen years, I got a great shot in the five.
I have a Lebron, if I have a Kobe, because
it's one player who gets to play both sides of
the ball. It's not like NFL, whereas eleven guys on
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offense and eleven guys of defense, and it's a lot
harder to just necessarily keep continuing to get somewhere NBA,
if I got the best player or two, I got
a shot every year. And then you start to build storylines,
You start to build rivalries. We get to have that,
and that adds to the extra juice of it. I
love whops, so I'm loving all of it. But I'm
saying I love that we used to have storylines and dramas,
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story run lines and man's not a storyline.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
What's the storyline? He's a really good player.
Speaker 5 (12:59):
The story line is he is he going to take
the next step and be able to get his team
to the championship?
Speaker 3 (13:06):
And then you start to say maybe.
Speaker 5 (13:08):
He is the faith Like, there's a story there that
we're still waiting to see play. Can the Joker bring
his team back and win the final two games? Are
wait a minute, you had them that, they had them
locked up. He goes score scored forty.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
To our points. Nobody helped him, but they didn't have
him locked up.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
What if he scores fifty in game six and seventy
in game seven and they get back to the Western
Conference finals.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
There's a huge story line there.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
You're going at a game meaning, okay, he had a
great game. What I'm saying is no, but I'm saying,
you look at the history of the basketball ride. I
don't rob we always say, man, I wish they was
like the eighties, Elijah, because you had the Celtics. I
wish it was the ninety better back six of the
championships were with one ball headed dude. Michael Jordan literally
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was like, Hey, I'm aa gee y'all a couple of years,
I'm gona go play some baseball real quick, smokes the
guards and golf. I'll be back and win three more
So my point is this is how it's been. The
two thousands was the Spurs and the Lakers didn't win
every year one three, five, seven, And I'm saying that,
and then Lakers won the other two one two, three two.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
The other two was spread out over like eight years, right.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
But what I'm saying is you have these teams, you
have these stories, that have these rivalries that has literally
been what it's been rocked.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
These are not decent against Kobe. That's just one championship.
I don't look at them that way, and I'm not
surprised when you missed seventy five threes that they should
be going to the finals or something, or they're on
their way. I'm cool with where we are.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
I am I'm not buying it, rep I'm not buying
like you're not buying poo Locals diet soda right now
eight seven seven extra seventy cents.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
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Speaker 5 (16:05):
Uh, Brandon are in Riverside, California. You're on the Odd
Couple of Fox Sports Radio. What's up, Brandon?
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Going on?
Speaker 6 (16:12):
Man, it's been hard to get on this show.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
Man, I know, how are you?
Speaker 2 (16:18):
I'm good.
Speaker 6 (16:19):
I'm good. Hey, Calvin, I gotta disagree that the young
kids grow up and become great. The self Curry, the
Lebron James and Kevin Durant, they got their championships. They
breaking down on us. It's time to see if fb
A working really take the face of this league and
grow it to, you know, to a better time for
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s g A and yok and she's still your Murray
and and uh we got Indiana faces. They look good,
man can sneaky, they can really pretty. If the matchups
is right, they can find you in their first championship.
But that's for that city. That would be amazing. Man.
I understand the parody and understand, you know, we like
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good matchups in the old heads and stuff like that,
but you know that's that's that's that's just the first
time cities do something.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
What I'm saying is, thank you called for the call.
B didn't forget there again. Didn't forget there again. Celtics
looks like there you know, might be out tonight if
get there again. So we can have these rivalries and
competitions seeing that. That's what I mean. I'm not saying
I don't want. I want if it's if it's to
be the Pacers this year, say they want with the
next year, get there again, Pacers.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
That's what I want. I want it to be some
dominant Pacers. They made it to the Eastern Conference final.
This is this second year.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Give me Pacers. Nuggets, okay and team in there.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
We know, oh, I'm saying, but they're making the progression.
Would you say that are the same thing? But I
think they're with the Timberwolves that this is if they win,
which I believe they will, they'll be in the in
the Western Conference final. Two years in a row. Like
that's the natural progression.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
And that's what I want. I want to see more
of that. I want to see because I want to
see teams go out it again.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Rivalries. That's how we get this.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
When you get let's say it's Knicks Pacers two three
years in a row, that's what you get.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Celtics Knicks too. Three is a row. That's what we need.
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Speaker 6 (18:05):
What's up, Brandy, Uncle, Robbie Calvin, what's going on?
Speaker 3 (18:09):
How you man?
Speaker 7 (18:10):
I listened to your take earlier about Pete rose Man.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
That was spot off, man. Thank you. We'll talk more
about that in our number three. So we'll get into
it all right.
Speaker 7 (18:18):
Looking looking forward to it, I just say this, the
last six years has been six different teams that won
a championship, and three of the six hadn't won it forever,
and one of those three had never won a chip before.
And the ways looking this year will be a team
who hasn't won before or one that hadn't won it forever.
So I believe it's good for the league. I believe
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it's good for the fans kind of tied of seeing
Lebron and step and all those guys. I think it's
just time to see a call Anthony get to the finals,
see a Holler Burton play, and I'm just looking forward
to just some newness in the NBA and the.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
Same thing like Kat, Like they dumped him, thinking, oh,
you know right, and he goes to the Knicks and
gets the Nicks to the championship for the first time
since ninety nine.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Like that, y'all gotta relax.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
You mean Brunson, No, no, no, But I'm saying, but
they had the team with Brunson, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
They made a notice of me. I'm gonna need some
huge games on a cap for me to say that.
But I get your point.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
Though they added him to the mix, they couldn't get there.
They lost Game seven to the Pacers at home last
year with brunts game Drew in New Jersey, you're in
the odd couple of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
What's up, Drew?
Speaker 8 (19:26):
Hey, guys, I don't think it has anything to do
with parody. I think it's what moves eyeballs. I guess
like page is a great story. I don't think that
Tyres hullibert And is gonna move then, you know, I
don't think Indiana's a big enough market. Quite frankly, the
NBA doesn't care about teams. They market players.
Speaker 9 (19:45):
For example, the New York New York's probably the only
team I can think of. New York and the Lakers
are the two teams I can think of that's still
about Lakers Knicks. Nick's making the finals, I think is
a crazier story. Having said that they haven't even won
the championship in fifty years, so that would be a
big story. I think they nick Anthony Edwards.
Speaker 6 (20:03):
That would be huge.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
If he knew Anthony Edwards, I mean, that's part of it.
Speaker 9 (20:10):
He's marketable, though, but he's marketable and his game is fun.
You have to have that.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
Everybody is not going to be everybody. It doesn't work
like that.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
I hear what you're saying.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
It's great, it's great for the I get that, but
it just doesn't work like that. Sometimes sometimes teams win.
The NBA wasn't helped by Toronto winning. You know why
their ratings don't even count. They're in Canada. First of all,
it didn't.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
It don't hurt what I can't even see you, or.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
It's still one of you. It's the greatest. Just the way,
just the way he looks, I can hear that I
don't even know where you are. I don't even know
where you are. I can't see you, can't even see you.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
And his mouth looked like AI mouth, like it was
somebody really not saying what it was supposed to be saying.
It's absolutely the best, all right, what's trending right now?
Monte Bilano sell us.
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Speaker 1 (21:17):
Well, they're trying to spread the game, I said earlier
on my earlier show, the New Show. I do say, man,
it's like they're like the missionary right now. They're going
around trying to spread the gospel of football all over
the world right now, And it used to just be
kind of Europe, maybe a spot here there in Mexico City,
not interest trying to take over all continents at this point,
rob Gi, give us some of the locations.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
We can see these games coming up in the fall.
Speaker 10 (21:40):
That's right.
Speaker 11 (21:41):
There are going to be seven international games this upcoming season.
Speaker 10 (21:45):
London gets three of them. I don't know why they
get three, but.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Brazil being English three of them.
Speaker 11 (21:49):
The Jacks, yeah, probably Dublin's getting one. Berlin's getting win,
Madrid is getting one. And if you're a Minnesota Vikings fan,
apologies to you because they got to play back to
back Internet games for whatever reason.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Well, I mean, I think that we've talked about it.
The NFL is trying to be.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
What basketball has done, especially in the continent of Asia,
where it's just gone over there. It's blown up, it's huge,
it's it's just a massive global game starting to continue
to grow and it's been it's been that way for
decades now, but it's just continuing to get bigger, bigger.
The NFL is trying to trying to spread this game,
specifically to Europe.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
They've been trying to do it.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Now for some time, and I don't know if it's
working as much as they hope it is. I don't
know if if you know understand business and you know
market shares, if they're saying, if we just get a
two percent increase every year, just two percent. You look
up over a decade, that's twenty percent of the market
share there. Then okay, incrementally, maybe it's working. But I mean,
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I don't see British fans walking around with my home jersey,
you know. I don't see him walking around with Trevor
Lawrence jersey, you know, folks out there in the UK,
And I don't see people walking around Argentina with these jerseys.
So I don't know what it's actually doing to the game.
It's such an americanized game. It's so coupled with gambling,
(23:10):
it's so coupled with fantasy football. That's just kind of
what we do here, and it's kind of how soccer
is trying its best to continue to grow in the
States where it's football. Of course, in the rest of
the world, and it's the biggest game in the world,
but it's slowly, slowly, slowly trying to grow in the States.
So the world's football is trying to do that here,
and we're trying to spread our football to the world.
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I don't think it's working as fast as they would hope,
rob but maybe slow money is better than no money.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
It's how they view it.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
This is about money. It's not about growing the league.
They've tried in Europe. Okay, people who just don't understand
the NFL has been at this. They had the World
League of American Football nineteen ninety one that far back failed.
People didn't go to the games. You talked about it.
No one's wearing a football jersey and you wear a
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soccer jersey if you're in Europe or whatever. Then they
tried NFL Europe. That was ninety five through two thousand
and seven, so they gave it a run, had teams
in Germany. People wouldn't go. You don't have that. You
can't grow it because football you have to have a
certain kind of build, you know what I mean, A
(24:21):
certain like this is not like soccer or basketball. You
just need a ball and eleven people or five people
on a court, football equipment, all this kind of stuff,
doing stuff that you've never grown up doing. I just
don't get it's gonna catch up on that. This to
me is just a money grab, right. They used to
send Jacksonville and things that couldn't sell out their own stadium,
(24:43):
and then it's just the bottom line is it's like
I'm gonna show you how big my manhood is. So
I'm gonna take a game to some foreign country. Look,
and they'll give me money to do it. Like a
lot of these are like international. This is a like
the NFL. I'm sure to get them to go to
these places. They have to pay for their travel and
(25:07):
a hotel and expect do you know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (25:09):
And the NFL gets to do that, they collect money.
You know, the game is gonna be sold out.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
They charge higher ticket prices because it's a novel team, because.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
It's a one time, it's a one off.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
This is not a regular Thursday night game in Jacksonville
against the Titans or something.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
I get it.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
This is what this is. And you have nothing about
building a game. What are you gonna tell one hundred
couple hundred more jerseys? Seriously, people don't need the NFL
to come there to buy a jersey. All I do
is go online if I really want to buy an
NFL jersey. Them coming to a foreign country is not
going to have that much of a difference. And I
can watch the game if I really want to on
(25:50):
any stream now it's available to you.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
If I'm living in Spain, I could.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
If I want to watch the Kansas City Chiefs and Batman,
I can watch.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Them, and I think they're all so getting a watered
down version of it. I mean, if you look at historically,
we were sending the worst teams. So you're sending me
these bad teams where I'm not seeing the best of
And yet I'll see on the Sunday in America, I'll
see the absolute best teams year any you know, week
in and week out. So I think that plays a role.
It's weird though, because as is gonna give us a
list of teams that are there. Minnesota is excited about this.
(26:21):
Minnesota's like, baby, this is.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
What we do. If playing international.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Was a super Bowl, boy, we would be the super
Bowl champs. They're eight to no if you include the
preseason games whenever they go play abroad. So the Vikings
are all in about this head coach talking about it.
This is what we wanted. We look at it as
a trip to go bond. You get away from the noise,
you know, we get to focus in. I'm like, h
I hope your players feel the same way as you do.
(26:46):
Get me away from my family all along and out,
you know, off the country and all that.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Rob g who we got on the schedule.
Speaker 10 (26:52):
Well, at least do you ask your question.
Speaker 11 (26:53):
At least one of the players publicly said, I try
to do that, Like, come on now, nobody wants to
spend two weeks on different time zones to play against
not your home fans.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
It's a lot. So here we go.
Speaker 11 (27:05):
This credit to the opening game is going to be great.
It should be great, Chiefs Chargers in Brazil. So that's
when we're looking forward to Vikings JJ McCarthy against Mason
Rudolph and the Steelers.
Speaker 10 (27:16):
Looking forward to that one. We'll see about that, J.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
J McCarthy.
Speaker 10 (27:20):
That one is in Dublin. Okay, okay.
Speaker 11 (27:23):
Followed up the next week Vikings again JJ McCarthy in
London to take on Kenny Pickett and the Cleveland Browns.
Speaker 10 (27:29):
Excited about that.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 11 (27:31):
How about bo Nicks and the Broncos taking on Justin
Fields and the allergic to forward passing Jets in London?
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Another one they letting us in their countrysports.
Speaker 11 (27:43):
And then this is the annual, you know, the Jags,
another home game for them in London.
Speaker 5 (27:46):
But they've they've had the rams, have they had the
most I mean.
Speaker 10 (27:51):
The movie to London.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
No, seriously, I had like two games a year.
Speaker 10 (27:56):
They have two games this year too. I believe in London.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
I don't think they're really trying to move them. Well
they got they don't do that well in Jacksonville.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
You know, like everybody thought that they were going to
be Green Bay South, No, a small market where they
would be able to everybody would be football crazy, and
it just hasn't worked out.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
They for BUZS college football.
Speaker 5 (28:13):
Right.
Speaker 11 (28:13):
A couple more here, Michael Pennix and the Falcons taking
on I guess it's going to be Danny Dimes and
the Indianapolis Colts in Berlin.
Speaker 10 (28:20):
You excited about that one?
Speaker 3 (28:22):
No?
Speaker 11 (28:22):
All right, last one, this is a good one. Jayden
Daniels and the Commanders taking on two and the Dolphins
in Madrid.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
That could be good.
Speaker 11 (28:30):
So the first and the last one seemed good. Other
than that, not so much. No, I mean, and that's
what I was saying.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
My point just before we went to the Cities is
that we're not even sending our best, right, We're not
sending the the top dogs. If you want to use
the NBA, I'm not sending you prime, Kobe Prime, Lebron
Prime stephor anything.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
We oh, shoot, this is amazing.
Speaker 11 (28:47):
The thing is they tried that last year and it
was Eagles and the Packers.
Speaker 10 (28:51):
The problem it was week one neither team was sharp. Yep,
and then Jordan Love got hurt.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
And remember that first.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
You're right, the whole league the first few weeks weren't
quite on point. Defenses where we were talking about scoring
was down. Defenses were playing well. So yeah, I mean,
listen again, I go back to the business end of things,
market share. Maybe they're thinking again, like I said, slow
money makes some money that matters because I just don't
get it. Just continue to dominate America. We are football
(29:18):
junkies here. They stole the Lord's day, rob g The
Lord said, rest on dye Sabbath and they said, no,
we're gonna.
Speaker 5 (29:25):
Put on some pads. And they're taking Christmas too, taking Christmas.
He can't even be born, he can't have a birthday.
This is out of line, absolutely all right. We got
Shekel City on deck. How did my man, Rob do?
Did you even you was scheckling on another state? Look
at you?
Speaker 3 (29:38):
No, I didn't do yesterday.
Speaker 5 (29:39):
I did it from from the last gate, from the
last day Monday, Monday. All right, we'll see how Monday's
results and we'll see what you got today.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
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Speaker 2 (30:39):
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Speaker 5 (30:51):
Alright, here we go two and one on Monday because
I was not here yesterday. It's right, that's right, one
twenty six. Thanks Lebron, appreciate it. Tonight they got the
Timberwolves minus ten and a half. Okay, they are hosting
the Golden State Wards without Steph Curry.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
I think they wrapped this up, get this done. Yes.
Speaker 5 (31:11):
I also got the New York Knicks plus four and
a half.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
They're getting four and a half on the road. I'm
actually shocked by that. I mean, I know Boston's gonna,
you know, do it for Jason.
Speaker 5 (31:21):
Well they and they're fighting forst season and then they're fighting
for this season. But I think, and this is the
perfect example. If you look at like the Boston started out, hogh.
The Knicks still won the first quarter. They're up by five.
It's early.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
The Knicks are an annoying George Joe like a like
a boxer that just keeps coming. You're like, dog, I
don't hit you with this, hit you with that uppercut,
split your eye literally split literally split Josh Hart's eye.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
And they just keep coming, man, they just keep coming.
Speaker 5 (31:52):
And last one Cincinnati minus one and a half runs.
They're host of White Sox in the Natty. So we
got Cincinnati he minus one and a half, the nixt
plus four and a half, and the t Wolves minus
ten and a half. And remember what's that. I'm not
telling you who to bet on. I'm telling you why bet.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Outrageous outrageous spread for a baseball game, just just a
typical game.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
It's usually two and a half at the top.
Speaker 5 (32:18):
It would be if it's three and a half, you
would take plus three and a half any day, you
know what I mean, Like, I've never seen the three
and a half two and a half. Well, a lot
happened too right now in this uh Saint Louis Who
in Philly, it's like sixteen runs already nine to seven
in the fourth, my goodness.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
And the knixt are up by eight in the second gear.
I think I think they wrapped this up. I just
think with Jason Tatum hurt and everything, they're just gonna
go ahead.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
The craziest part, Robbie at forty two before he tore
his achilles was balling nine.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
I was gonna say the Knicks were gonna win that game. Absolutely.
They had already taken over that game.
Speaker 5 (32:54):
Absolutely, even if he would have stayed healthy, they had
taken over.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
That completely agree, and they've just they have not shown
up the way that you would thought they would have.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
But thank god for the NBA and this what's that
Draymond Green?
Speaker 5 (33:06):
Yes, later a lighter I should say, yeah, come on, man,
with the integrity about the point spread and all that
to the officials that that's not what you want if
you're the NBA. It's just not a player talking about
point spreads and the referees.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
So for those who that maybe hadn't seen it, or
there's a point of game where he's talking smack to
Timberwolves to kind of buy their the Warriors bench and
he says, the spread, man, the spread, it's five and
a half. And if you look at the game, what
was that six or something at the time, rob g
was the game it was on six points or something
like when Draymond said it, and he was talking about
the spread being five and a half. And it's just
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one of those things where if you're the league, you're like,
come on, man, we don't need that.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
We don't need that. And he didn't.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
It wasn't hidden, it wasn't a wired conversation or he
was a hot mic. Didn't know he's in the middle
of the game, and he's talking about it, talking spread,
talk about the rest, talking about point spread.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
It ain't in a number he threw out, which was
five and a half.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
You look at the score like I said, I believe
it was six, or you're looking like ooh, and it
just it.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
Was not a good look from a veteran player who's
who should know better.
Speaker 5 (34:09):
And they find them fifty thousand dollars come on, and
they'll probably have a stern talking to dude, you can't do.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
This, like like it's already Murky would have it.
Speaker 5 (34:18):
And then with what was the official Donnie remember that
whole scandal wasn't really.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
A good podcast called Whistleblower I talked about.
Speaker 5 (34:27):
That, and I remember there was another scandal in Detroit
where the official score. This is during the Bad Boys.
The Pistons games were going longer and they kept going
like the over and so they were like, what why
the Pistons games? So remember this was yeah, this was
but this was in the Bad Boys, not Chauncey Billups,
no Detroit basketball here, No. And what the guy was
(34:49):
doing was like delaying starting the clock, that extra little
one second you do that enough time? Yes, I make
this game about fifty one minute. There you go extra
six to seven points.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
Yes, that's exactly what. So all he was doing was
just delayed.
Speaker 5 (35:08):
It's a little bit not where it's so noticeable, but
you do that a few times. It's a few extra
baskets and then all of a sudden, two extra baskets,
three extra baskets, and they and they cover the over. Yeah,
so the gamblers they know, they're looking, going, why are
all these games in Detroit over?
Speaker 3 (35:23):
Yeah? Yeah, he's always a always take the over. Wink wink. Yeah,
it's just a bad look. Draymond. Again, you you know,
and you know more than ever.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
You and I we've been doing the show now, I
don't know, eight nine months, whatever it's been.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
We know that.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
That's if you go on social that's the immediately what
everybody says, the script, the script. All the NBA must
have got script, NFL that got the script. Script is rigged,
script on Huber Flag, rigged.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
On Sundays with the oh my god, that's all. It's
all Twitter, social media is what was the game?
Speaker 5 (35:57):
Rob g Do you remember the Chiefs game where they
took the safety and blew everybody's like they were going
to cover the Chiefs or something.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
Am I right? And then and then remember they ran
out of the back.
Speaker 5 (36:09):
Of the end zone for safety and they had a fit,
Internet exploding on.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Either it's Chiefs, it's Mahomes. It's rigged all things because
of that one game. Yeah, so it's just that's what
I mean when I say, Draymond, you're a spokesman, you're
a statesman, you're a veteran.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
You know better than that man.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
You know everybody's watching that, You know everybody, and you
just and again, this is a playoff game Two's not
a random Tuesday night in February. Everybody's watching it. Speaking
of the Chiefs, are they watchable? We'll tell you
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Speaker 3 (01:14):
And man, what.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
A show we have for you today. And I know
a lot of people were like, Rob, the Pete Rose thing.
We want to hear your take. Whatever we're gonna get
to that. I'm gonna get into that. We'll talk about
our number three.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
In the show. So we'll do that. But first let
me welcome in my partner. He is Kelvin Washington. Yeah,
what up, man, welcome back? Thank you.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
I didn't realize you were going to graduation for a
mutual friend. Didn't realize that.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
How was it?
Speaker 5 (01:42):
It was absolutely outstanding And I do want to say
congratulations in mozeltof to Shamar Woods. Yeah, my guy, who
are I've mentored since his freshman year at Hampton and
he graduated with a law degree from ASU. He's as
their asup, worked at Sports Illustrated, MLB dot Com, the
(02:04):
New York Daily News, the Philadelphia Choir. He's run that
resume down, Ron Man, it's been impressive. But I'm really
really impressed and happy for Shamar.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
So it was great.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
That's why I was off yesterday at Arizona State's graduation.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
That was nice.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Man.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Yeah, yeah, he's good dude, good dude, So I'm happy
for him. So where'd you meet him? At ABJ? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (02:23):
An ABJ how many years ago? And uh just congratulated him.
Didn't realize that's where you were going. I just knew
you were going to graduation, didn't know it was his,
So that was really cool to see. But yeah, welcome back, man.
Meet ain't from held it down, but glad you're back. Glad,
you're safe, Glad, everything's good. So I'm ready rock and roll.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
Let's do it all right, Let's welcome in the Odd
Couple crew, because you wouldn't be able to do this
fine radio program without him. Rob g is our producer, okay,
Alex is our engineer.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
By the way, Manti Bolanos is at the ANC. That's right,
she'll keep us updated throughout the program.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Why is it so lit today? What in here?
Speaker 5 (02:58):
Everybody feel like it's like forty five? Then I walked in,
it was just everybody. Yeah, I don't know, that's more
than usual, or maybe because everybody's like congregating. Usually everybody's
in their own little cubby hole.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
And everybody's out. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
And Elijah that snuck in he already Okay, he's our social.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Media guru with it, Yes, trying to get some bait.
Change the subject a little bit.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
And Elijah is in studio today with us, so which
is always great to see Elijah and whatnot. So man, hey,
on this worship Wednesday, let's get right at it. And
as we know, the NBA playoffs are in full swing.
We're ready for the conference finals, getting ready. Teams are ready,
to move on. We got the Nicks and the Celtics.
(03:43):
Yeah uh, and then Golden State could get knocked out
tonight against the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
And you don't like this new NBA?
Speaker 1 (03:53):
No, no, no, I don't dislike it, no, no, no,
you know I'm I'm their audience.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
I am a basketball junkie. I love it.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
But what I don't like is how some people are
trying to sell the idea that, oh man, there's so
much parody. We love it and we haven't had back
to back champions since the Warriors of twenty seventeen twenty eighteen,
and so everybody's all, oh man, this is good for basketball.
You never know, hey, Rob, Rob, you never know who's
gonna win this year. It's wide open. You don't want
(04:21):
to wide open NBA run to the final stop that
everybody trying to sell me on that what you want?
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Because what do we always here? Man?
Speaker 1 (04:29):
I love the glory days. I love when basketball was
at its best. What decade eighties? What decades nineties? Well
let's break it down, Rob a little bit. In the eighties,
every finals either had the Lakers in it or the
Celtics in it, and either they wanted or lost it.
But they were in the finals, so you knew the players,
you knew the storylines. You love them or you hate them,
(04:50):
but you tuned in. You love the rivalry between them,
or maybe you love the rival between the Celtics, and
you had the Celtics and the Pistons going at it,
or the seventy six is going at it. You like
the familiarity, you like you knew what you're gonna get,
the best of the best going at it, the best
players literally three time MVP and Larry Bird MVPs and
Magic Johnson.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
You knew you were gonna get that.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Then there was a little team, a blip in between
that also went to three straight finals. They won two
of the three. Eighty eight, eighty nine, ninety was the Pistons,
the bad boys. So again familiarity, going up against the
Lakers in eighty eight, going up against the beginning eighty
nine beating them, then going up as well ninety against
the Trailblazers. But you had that then you know who
won ninety one, two and three the Bulls. Michael Jordan
(05:34):
decided to go play your favorite sport. He got That's
how you got in his ear and told him he
should go be a baseball player. He goes and plays baseball,
and the Rockets went back to back. Then the Bulls
come and win three more. And so my point is
we just we have it where we get the best teams,
we get the best players ala Michael Jordan in the nineties,
a La Jaquem Olajuan in the nineties as well ninety
(05:54):
four and ninety five. And I think that's part of
what we've been missing, rob is having the last handful
of years, the rivalries, the beefs, the teams that you
kind of know, like the Warriors and Calves going at
it for that little four year stretch. And so what
the Celtics as they just start this game, and like,
if the Celtics lose, which looks like they very well could,
(06:17):
and they don't even know if they would make it
to the Eastern Conference Finals, out the finals, if they
happen to have beat the Knicks, well then that we
would have another different champion, as they're the reigning champions
as we speak. And I was just thinking, like, I
don't know if that's as necessarily as cool as people
think about when they say, oh man, it's cool. You
never know who's gonna win. We got parody. I don't
think we want parody quite as much as we think
we do. I think we want teams that are good.
(06:38):
But at the end of the day, I think we
want those two or three teams that we kind of
have been dependent on and seeing for the last several years.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
Totally disagree. I'm so bored with like the same old,
same o. And like recently we've had teams who've won
and it's been good. I don't know, Denver had never won,
and they they finally won, they would I don't think
that was bad. Yeah, you got when the Bucks won.
(07:07):
Then once since leu al Cinder, the Raptors had never won.
I mean, like so so this whole idea and now
as we look, it's just a changing of the guard.
And I don't think it's bad because some of these teams, Indiana,
this will be their second year in a row in
the Eastern Conference finals.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Maybe this is their their push where they're going.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
To push through finally, you know, get to a championship,
maybe even win a champions whatever it is, and maybe
they're starting something. Okay, Uh, the Timberwolves, if they can
get there again, that would be two years in a
row that they made it to the Western coast. So
it's not like they they haven't worked towards this. We
always talk about the NBA. It's a process. It takes
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you a couple of steps. We're not talking about uh
uh Detroit and Houston. If if they Detroit in Houston
were in it, then maybe I would buy into that.
But the teams that I'm looking at, and even in
the next case, last year they lost in seven games
in the second round where Indiana went to the Eastern
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Conference finals, and then they also picked up Kat to
boast of their thing, and and they want to take
the next step by going out and getting a player
like that Mickel Bridges. They've added pieces to get to
their next step. So we're watching the Knicks as a
as a step in progress. And and the teams that
are going to be left or in the conference finals,
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I'm cool with that. Who's the surprise, like the the
one the surprise I got a left field? If the
Pistons were in it and you knew they had no chance,
or Houston was in it, you know they gonna have
no chance. Why can't Indiana win? Why can't the Timberwolves win?
Like like, these are teams that have worked their way up.
So I think that this is a natural progression. I feel,
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watch anything. Here's here's what I don't want to see them.
I don't want to see the bad lakers. I don't
want to see They's thing Celtic.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Here's the thing though, had they been had they gotten
to the finals, clearly they wouldn't have been bad.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
So my point is, Denver, you brought them up. That
was cool.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Wait, great, then get back to the finals, Boston, great,
congrats they worked towards it. I agree they had been
working towards it. Get back to the finals. Now it
looks like Boston hadn't. But when they won, they hadn't
won since two thousand and eight, and they had.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
Their They went to the finals, they lost, and they
had their progression as well. So I get the history
of the Celtics, but from two thousand and eight to
twenty twenty four, right, which is a significant amount of time,
they weren't in that mix as far as winning, and
they had gotten closer and closer, but they hadn't won
in a wi That's my point.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Even you go back to that two thousand and eight
Celtics team, they would have gotten back to two thousand
and nine, but KG gets hurt. But they got back
in twenty ten. So my point is, you had those
teams Kobe, they go but three straight finals a game
with Powell and so they won two of those. My
point is we historically, this is more what we've had.
We had the shocking Kobe years. They go four out
of five years, they won three of the four. So
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the Spurs miss the year, come back, oh three, five,
O seven. My point is this is what we've had
in the NBA for decades where we have these And
so I'm not mad at different one. I'm saying Denver
get back. I'm that mad at Boston one.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Dems had the chance to get back to that. They're
not out of it. They're not out of it. They
haven't been eliminated.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
And my point is, Okay, they won, they got knocked
off last year, but they're still in the mix. They're
not out of it. And the same thing, there's a
lot of good teams and younger players. Maybe ant Man develops,
he finally gets his team there and now he makes
a run, and the Timberwolves.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Were in the mix every year or whatever.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
I just see this as progression, and I think it
is good for the NBA. Who wants to see the
same teams? I told you, But this like the Chiefs.
It's like like they maybe to the Super Bowl. I
was tired of the Chiefs. A lot of people were
tired of the Chiefs. But Rob you say, see different. Literally,
that's not the history of the NBA. It was the
Celtics the entire sixties in half to seventies. But that
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was that was It was sports though, right, But the
Yankees went every year the Celtics.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
What I'm saying, so we say was missing.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
With the NBA were literally.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
Listen to me, what's missing is good basketball. That's what
I'm missing. I don't have a problem if we have
a good series and it's Indiana against the Timberwolves, I
wouldn't be mad at that. I get to see ant
Man and maybe this and maybe Tyreese Halliburton develops into
the star that maybe we have been seeing.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
You're giving and that's the point. You're giving me a
bunch of maybies.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
When I had this, when I had the Warriors going
up against Cavs, what I knew, I knew Lebron was
arguably be the best player but don't there. And I
knew Kyrie, and I knew it Steph Clay, Draymond and
then Katie eventually that's what we've seen.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
So they're getting to get there. They weren't there. Lebron
didn't win for eight years. He had to get there.
Speaker 5 (11:56):
So Halliburton has to get there, ant Man has to
get there, and Michael Jordan has to get there.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
I don't understand there was an instant. You're missing the
point of what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
The Celtics are already there, so I'm saying they need
to get there this year.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
To walk get back to what I'm saying is.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
To continue what the point of how the NBA has
flown when you have dominant teams, because in the NBA
is different than NFL, it's different than MLB. If I
have a Steph Curry, well for the next seven, eight
nineteen years, I got a great shot in the five.
I have a Lebron, if I have a Kobe, because
it's one player who gets to play both sides of
the ball. It's not like NFL, whereas eleven guys on
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offense and eleven guys of defense, and it's a lot
harder to just necessarily keep continuing to get somewhere NBA,
if I got the best player or two, I got
a shot every year. And then you start to build storylines,
You start to build rivalries. We get to have that,
and that adds to the extra juice of it. I
love whops, so I'm loving all of it. But I'm
saying I love that we used to have storylines and dramas,
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story run lines and man's not a storyline.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
What's the storyline? He's a really good player.
Speaker 5 (12:59):
The story line is he is he going to take
the next step and be able to get his team
to the championship?
Speaker 3 (13:06):
And then you start to say maybe.
Speaker 5 (13:08):
He is the faith Like, there's a story there that
we're still waiting to see play. Can the Joker bring
his team back and win the final two games? Are
wait a minute, you had them that, they had them
locked up. He goes score scored forty.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
To our points. Nobody helped him, but they didn't have
him locked up.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
What if he scores fifty in game six and seventy
in game seven and they get back to the Western
Conference finals.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
There's a huge story line there.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
You're going at a game meaning, okay, he had a
great game. What I'm saying is no, but I'm saying,
you look at the history of the basketball ride. I
don't rob we always say, man, I wish they was
like the eighties, Elijah, because you had the Celtics. I
wish it was the ninety better back six of the
championships were with one ball headed dude. Michael Jordan literally
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was like, Hey, I'm aa gee y'all a couple of years,
I'm gona go play some baseball real quick, smokes the
guards and golf. I'll be back and win three more
So my point is this is how it's been. The
two thousands was the Spurs and the Lakers didn't win
every year one three, five, seven, And I'm saying that,
and then Lakers won the other two one two, three two.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
The other two was spread out over like eight years, right.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
But what I'm saying is you have these teams, you
have these stories, that have these rivalries that has literally
been what it's been rocked.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
These are not decent against Kobe. That's just one championship.
I don't look at them that way, and I'm not
surprised when you missed seventy five threes that they should
be going to the finals or something, or they're on
their way. I'm cool with where we are.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
I am I'm not buying it, rep I'm not buying
like you're not buying poo Locals diet soda right now
eight seven seven extra seventy cents.
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Speaker 5 (16:05):
Uh, Brandon are in Riverside, California. You're on the Odd
Couple of Fox Sports Radio. What's up, Brandon?
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Going on?
Speaker 6 (16:12):
Man, it's been hard to get on this show.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
Man, I know, how are you?
Speaker 2 (16:18):
I'm good.
Speaker 6 (16:19):
I'm good. Hey, Calvin, I gotta disagree that the young
kids grow up and become great. The self Curry, the
Lebron James and Kevin Durant, they got their championships. They
breaking down on us. It's time to see if fb
A working really take the face of this league and
grow it to, you know, to a better time for
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s g A and yok and she's still your Murray
and and uh we got Indiana faces. They look good,
man can sneaky, they can really pretty. If the matchups
is right, they can find you in their first championship.
But that's for that city. That would be amazing. Man.
I understand the parody and understand, you know, we like
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good matchups in the old heads and stuff like that,
but you know that's that's that's that's just the first
time cities do something.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
What I'm saying is, thank you called for the call.
B didn't forget there again. Didn't forget there again. Celtics
looks like there you know, might be out tonight if
get there again. So we can have these rivalries and
competitions seeing that. That's what I mean. I'm not saying
I don't want. I want if it's if it's to
be the Pacers this year, say they want with the
next year, get there again, Pacers.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
That's what I want. I want it to be some
dominant Pacers. They made it to the Eastern Conference final.
This is this second year.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Give me Pacers. Nuggets, okay and team in there.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
We know, oh, I'm saying, but they're making the progression.
Would you say that are the same thing? But I
think they're with the Timberwolves that this is if they win,
which I believe they will, they'll be in the in
the Western Conference final. Two years in a row. Like
that's the natural progression.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
And that's what I want. I want to see more
of that. I want to see because I want to
see teams go out it again.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Rivalries. That's how we get this.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
When you get let's say it's Knicks Pacers two three
years in a row, that's what you get.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Celtics Knicks too. Three is a row. That's what we need.
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Speaker 6 (18:05):
What's up, Brandy, Uncle, Robbie Calvin, what's going on?
Speaker 3 (18:09):
How you man?
Speaker 7 (18:10):
I listened to your take earlier about Pete rose Man.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
That was spot off, man. Thank you. We'll talk more
about that in our number three. So we'll get into
it all right.
Speaker 7 (18:18):
Looking looking forward to it, I just say this, the
last six years has been six different teams that won
a championship, and three of the six hadn't won it forever,
and one of those three had never won a chip before.
And the ways looking this year will be a team
who hasn't won before or one that hadn't won it forever.
So I believe it's good for the league. I believe
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it's good for the fans kind of tied of seeing
Lebron and step and all those guys. I think it's
just time to see a call Anthony get to the finals,
see a Holler Burton play, and I'm just looking forward
to just some newness in the NBA and the.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
Same thing like Kat, Like they dumped him, thinking, oh,
you know right, and he goes to the Knicks and
gets the Nicks to the championship for the first time
since ninety nine.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Like that, y'all gotta relax.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
You mean Brunson, No, no, no, But I'm saying, but
they had the team with Brunson, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
They made a notice of me. I'm gonna need some
huge games on a cap for me to say that.
But I get your point.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
Though they added him to the mix, they couldn't get there.
They lost Game seven to the Pacers at home last
year with brunts game Drew in New Jersey, you're in
the odd couple of Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
What's up, Drew?
Speaker 8 (19:26):
Hey, guys, I don't think it has anything to do
with parody. I think it's what moves eyeballs. I guess
like page is a great story. I don't think that
Tyres hullibert And is gonna move then, you know, I
don't think Indiana's a big enough market. Quite frankly, the
NBA doesn't care about teams. They market players.
Speaker 9 (19:45):
For example, the New York New York's probably the only
team I can think of. New York and the Lakers
are the two teams I can think of that's still
about Lakers Knicks. Nick's making the finals, I think is
a crazier story. Having said that they haven't even won
the championship in fifty years, so that would be a
big story. I think they nick Anthony Edwards.
Speaker 6 (20:03):
That would be huge.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
If he knew Anthony Edwards, I mean, that's part of it.
Speaker 9 (20:10):
He's marketable, though, but he's marketable and his game is fun.
You have to have that.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
Everybody is not going to be everybody. It doesn't work
like that.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
I hear what you're saying.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
It's great, it's great for the I get that, but
it just doesn't work like that. Sometimes sometimes teams win.
The NBA wasn't helped by Toronto winning. You know why
their ratings don't even count. They're in Canada. First of all,
it didn't.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
It don't hurt what I can't even see you, or.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
It's still one of you. It's the greatest. Just the way,
just the way he looks, I can hear that I
don't even know where you are. I don't even know
where you are. I can't see you, can't even see you.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
And his mouth looked like AI mouth, like it was
somebody really not saying what it was supposed to be saying.
It's absolutely the best, all right, what's trending right now?
Monte Bilano sell us.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
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Speaker 1 (21:17):
Well, they're trying to spread the game, I said earlier
on my earlier show, the New Show. I do say, man,
it's like they're like the missionary right now. They're going
around trying to spread the gospel of football all over
the world right now, And it used to just be
kind of Europe, maybe a spot here there in Mexico City,
not interest trying to take over all continents at this point,
rob Gi, give us some of the locations.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
We can see these games coming up in the fall.
Speaker 10 (21:40):
That's right.
Speaker 11 (21:41):
There are going to be seven international games this upcoming season.
Speaker 10 (21:45):
London gets three of them. I don't know why they
get three, but.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Brazil being English three of them.
Speaker 11 (21:49):
The Jacks, yeah, probably Dublin's getting one. Berlin's getting win,
Madrid is getting one. And if you're a Minnesota Vikings fan,
apologies to you because they got to play back to
back Internet games for whatever reason.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Well, I mean, I think that we've talked about it.
The NFL is trying to be.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
What basketball has done, especially in the continent of Asia,
where it's just gone over there. It's blown up, it's huge,
it's it's just a massive global game starting to continue
to grow and it's been it's been that way for
decades now, but it's just continuing to get bigger, bigger.
The NFL is trying to trying to spread this game,
specifically to Europe.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
They've been trying to do it.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Now for some time, and I don't know if it's
working as much as they hope it is. I don't
know if if you know understand business and you know
market shares, if they're saying, if we just get a
two percent increase every year, just two percent. You look
up over a decade, that's twenty percent of the market
share there. Then okay, incrementally, maybe it's working. But I mean,
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I don't see British fans walking around with my home jersey,
you know. I don't see him walking around with Trevor
Lawrence jersey, you know, folks out there in the UK,
And I don't see people walking around Argentina with these jerseys.
So I don't know what it's actually doing to the game.
It's such an americanized game. It's so coupled with gambling,
(23:10):
it's so coupled with fantasy football. That's just kind of
what we do here, and it's kind of how soccer
is trying its best to continue to grow in the
States where it's football. Of course, in the rest of
the world, and it's the biggest game in the world,
but it's slowly, slowly, slowly trying to grow in the States.
So the world's football is trying to do that here,
and we're trying to spread our football to the world.
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I don't think it's working as fast as they would hope,
rob but maybe slow money is better than no money.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
It's how they view it.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
This is about money. It's not about growing the league.
They've tried in Europe. Okay, people who just don't understand
the NFL has been at this. They had the World
League of American Football nineteen ninety one that far back failed.
People didn't go to the games. You talked about it.
No one's wearing a football jersey and you wear a
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soccer jersey if you're in Europe or whatever. Then they
tried NFL Europe. That was ninety five through two thousand
and seven, so they gave it a run, had teams
in Germany. People wouldn't go. You don't have that. You
can't grow it because football you have to have a
certain kind of build, you know what I mean, A
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certain like this is not like soccer or basketball. You
just need a ball and eleven people or five people
on a court, football equipment, all this kind of stuff,
doing stuff that you've never grown up doing. I just
don't get it's gonna catch up on that. This to
me is just a money grab, right. They used to
send Jacksonville and things that couldn't sell out their own stadium,
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and then it's just the bottom line is it's like
I'm gonna show you how big my manhood is. So
I'm gonna take a game to some foreign country. Look,
and they'll give me money to do it. Like a
lot of these are like international. This is a like
the NFL. I'm sure to get them to go to
these places. They have to pay for their travel and
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a hotel and expect do you know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (25:09):
And the NFL gets to do that, they collect money.
You know, the game is gonna be sold out.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
They charge higher ticket prices because it's a novel team, because.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
It's a one time, it's a one off.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
This is not a regular Thursday night game in Jacksonville
against the Titans or something.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
I get it.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
This is what this is. And you have nothing about
building a game. What are you gonna tell one hundred
couple hundred more jerseys? Seriously, people don't need the NFL
to come there to buy a jersey. All I do
is go online if I really want to buy an
NFL jersey. Them coming to a foreign country is not
going to have that much of a difference. And I
can watch the game if I really want to on
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any stream now it's available to you.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
If I'm living in Spain, I could.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
If I want to watch the Kansas City Chiefs and Batman,
I can watch.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Them, and I think they're all so getting a watered
down version of it. I mean, if you look at historically,
we were sending the worst teams. So you're sending me
these bad teams where I'm not seeing the best of
And yet I'll see on the Sunday in America, I'll
see the absolute best teams year any you know, week
in and week out. So I think that plays a role.
It's weird though, because as is gonna give us a
list of teams that are there. Minnesota is excited about this.
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Minnesota's like, baby, this is.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
What we do. If playing international.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Was a super Bowl, boy, we would be the super
Bowl champs. They're eight to no if you include the
preseason games whenever they go play abroad. So the Vikings
are all in about this head coach talking about it.
This is what we wanted. We look at it as
a trip to go bond. You get away from the noise,
you know, we get to focus in. I'm like, h
I hope your players feel the same way as you do.
(26:46):
Get me away from my family all along and out,
you know, off the country and all that.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Rob g who we got on the schedule.
Speaker 10 (26:52):
Well, at least do you ask your question.
Speaker 11 (26:53):
At least one of the players publicly said, I try
to do that, Like, come on now, nobody wants to
spend two weeks on different time zones to play against
not your home fans.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
It's a lot. So here we go.
Speaker 11 (27:05):
This credit to the opening game is going to be great.
It should be great, Chiefs Chargers in Brazil. So that's
when we're looking forward to Vikings JJ McCarthy against Mason
Rudolph and the Steelers.
Speaker 10 (27:16):
Looking forward to that one. We'll see about that, J.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
J McCarthy.
Speaker 10 (27:20):
That one is in Dublin. Okay, okay.
Speaker 11 (27:23):
Followed up the next week Vikings again JJ McCarthy in
London to take on Kenny Pickett and the Cleveland Browns.
Speaker 10 (27:29):
Excited about that.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 11 (27:31):
How about bo Nicks and the Broncos taking on Justin
Fields and the allergic to forward passing Jets in London?
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Another one they letting us in their countrysports.
Speaker 11 (27:43):
And then this is the annual, you know, the Jags,
another home game for them in London.
Speaker 5 (27:46):
But they've they've had the rams, have they had the
most I mean.
Speaker 10 (27:51):
The movie to London.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
No, seriously, I had like two games a year.
Speaker 10 (27:56):
They have two games this year too. I believe in London.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
I don't think they're really trying to move them. Well
they got they don't do that well in Jacksonville.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
You know, like everybody thought that they were going to
be Green Bay South, No, a small market where they
would be able to everybody would be football crazy, and
it just hasn't worked out.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
They for BUZS college football.
Speaker 5 (28:13):
Right.
Speaker 11 (28:13):
A couple more here, Michael Pennix and the Falcons taking
on I guess it's going to be Danny Dimes and
the Indianapolis Colts in Berlin.
Speaker 10 (28:20):
You excited about that one?
Speaker 3 (28:22):
No?
Speaker 11 (28:22):
All right, last one, this is a good one. Jayden
Daniels and the Commanders taking on two and the Dolphins
in Madrid.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
That could be good.
Speaker 11 (28:30):
So the first and the last one seemed good. Other
than that, not so much. No, I mean, and that's
what I was saying.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
My point just before we went to the Cities is
that we're not even sending our best, right, We're not
sending the the top dogs. If you want to use
the NBA, I'm not sending you prime, Kobe Prime, Lebron
Prime stephor anything.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
We oh, shoot, this is amazing.
Speaker 11 (28:47):
The thing is they tried that last year and it
was Eagles and the Packers.
Speaker 10 (28:51):
The problem it was week one neither team was sharp. Yep,
and then Jordan Love got hurt.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
And remember that first.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
You're right, the whole league the first few weeks weren't
quite on point. Defenses where we were talking about scoring
was down. Defenses were playing well. So yeah, I mean,
listen again, I go back to the business end of things,
market share. Maybe they're thinking again, like I said, slow
money makes some money that matters because I just don't
get it. Just continue to dominate America. We are football
(29:18):
junkies here. They stole the Lord's day, rob g The
Lord said, rest on dye Sabbath and they said, no,
we're gonna.
Speaker 5 (29:25):
Put on some pads. And they're taking Christmas too, taking Christmas.
He can't even be born, he can't have a birthday.
This is out of line, absolutely all right. We got
Shekel City on deck. How did my man, Rob do?
Did you even you was scheckling on another state? Look
at you?
Speaker 3 (29:38):
No, I didn't do yesterday.
Speaker 5 (29:39):
I did it from from the last gate, from the
last day Monday, Monday. All right, we'll see how Monday's
results and we'll see what you got today.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
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Speaker 3 (30:10):
That's right, hallelujah.
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Speaker 1 (30:32):
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Speaker 3 (30:36):
All right. The time now for Shekel City.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
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Speaker 5 (30:51):
Alright, here we go two and one on Monday because
I was not here yesterday. It's right, that's right, one
twenty six. Thanks Lebron, appreciate it. Tonight they got the
Timberwolves minus ten and a half. Okay, they are hosting
the Golden State Wards without Steph Curry.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
I think they wrapped this up, get this done. Yes.
Speaker 5 (31:11):
I also got the New York Knicks plus four and
a half.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
They're getting four and a half on the road. I'm
actually shocked by that. I mean, I know Boston's gonna,
you know, do it for Jason.
Speaker 5 (31:21):
Well they and they're fighting forst season and then they're fighting
for this season. But I think, and this is the
perfect example. If you look at like the Boston started out, hogh.
The Knicks still won the first quarter. They're up by five.
It's early.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
The Knicks are an annoying George Joe like a like
a boxer that just keeps coming. You're like, dog, I
don't hit you with this, hit you with that uppercut,
split your eye literally split literally split Josh Hart's eye.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
And they just keep coming, man, they just keep coming.
Speaker 5 (31:52):
And last one Cincinnati minus one and a half runs.
They're host of White Sox in the Natty. So we
got Cincinnati he minus one and a half, the nixt
plus four and a half, and the t Wolves minus
ten and a half. And remember what's that. I'm not
telling you who to bet on. I'm telling you why bet.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Outrageous outrageous spread for a baseball game, just just a
typical game.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
It's usually two and a half at the top.
Speaker 5 (32:18):
It would be if it's three and a half, you
would take plus three and a half any day, you
know what I mean, Like, I've never seen the three
and a half two and a half. Well, a lot
happened too right now in this uh Saint Louis Who
in Philly, it's like sixteen runs already nine to seven
in the fourth, my goodness.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
And the knixt are up by eight in the second gear.
I think I think they wrapped this up. I just
think with Jason Tatum hurt and everything, they're just gonna
go ahead.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
The craziest part, Robbie at forty two before he tore
his achilles was balling nine.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
I was gonna say the Knicks were gonna win that game. Absolutely.
They had already taken over that game.
Speaker 5 (32:54):
Absolutely, even if he would have stayed healthy, they had
taken over.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
That completely agree, and they've just they have not shown
up the way that you would thought they would have.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
But thank god for the NBA and this what's that
Draymond Green?
Speaker 5 (33:06):
Yes, later a lighter I should say, yeah, come on, man,
with the integrity about the point spread and all that
to the officials that that's not what you want if
you're the NBA. It's just not a player talking about
point spreads and the referees.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
So for those who that maybe hadn't seen it, or
there's a point of game where he's talking smack to
Timberwolves to kind of buy their the Warriors bench and
he says, the spread, man, the spread, it's five and
a half. And if you look at the game, what
was that six or something at the time, rob g
was the game it was on six points or something
like when Draymond said it, and he was talking about
the spread being five and a half. And it's just
(33:42):
one of those things where if you're the league, you're like,
come on, man, we don't need that.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
We don't need that. And he didn't.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
It wasn't hidden, it wasn't a wired conversation or he
was a hot mic. Didn't know he's in the middle
of the game, and he's talking about it, talking spread,
talk about the rest, talking about point spread.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
It ain't in a number he threw out, which was
five and a half.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
You look at the score like I said, I believe
it was six, or you're looking like ooh, and it
just it.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
Was not a good look from a veteran player who's
who should know better.
Speaker 5 (34:09):
And they find them fifty thousand dollars come on, and
they'll probably have a stern talking to dude, you can't do.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
This, like like it's already Murky would have it.
Speaker 5 (34:18):
And then with what was the official Donnie remember that
whole scandal wasn't really.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
A good podcast called Whistleblower I talked about.
Speaker 5 (34:27):
That, and I remember there was another scandal in Detroit
where the official score. This is during the Bad Boys.
The Pistons games were going longer and they kept going
like the over and so they were like, what why
the Pistons games? So remember this was yeah, this was
but this was in the Bad Boys, not Chauncey Billups,
no Detroit basketball here, No. And what the guy was
(34:49):
doing was like delaying starting the clock, that extra little
one second you do that enough time? Yes, I make
this game about fifty one minute. There you go extra
six to seven points.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
Yes, that's exactly what. So all he was doing was
just delayed.
Speaker 5 (35:08):
It's a little bit not where it's so noticeable, but
you do that a few times. It's a few extra
baskets and then all of a sudden, two extra baskets,
three extra baskets, and they and they cover the over. Yeah,
so the gamblers they know, they're looking, going, why are
all these games in Detroit over?
Speaker 3 (35:23):
Yeah? Yeah, he's always a always take the over. Wink wink. Yeah,
it's just a bad look. Draymond. Again, you you know,
and you know more than ever.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
You and I we've been doing the show now, I
don't know, eight nine months, whatever it's been.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
We know that.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
That's if you go on social that's the immediately what
everybody says, the script, the script. All the NBA must
have got script, NFL that got the script. Script is rigged,
script on Huber Flag, rigged.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
On Sundays with the oh my god, that's all. It's
all Twitter, social media is what was the game?
Speaker 5 (35:57):
Rob g Do you remember the Chiefs game where they
took the safety and blew everybody's like they were going
to cover the Chiefs or something.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
Am I right? And then and then remember they ran
out of the back.
Speaker 5 (36:09):
Of the end zone for safety and they had a fit,
Internet exploding on.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Either it's Chiefs, it's Mahomes. It's rigged all things because
of that one game. Yeah, so it's just that's what
I mean when I say, Draymond, you're a spokesman, you're
a statesman, you're a veteran.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
You know better than that man.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
You know everybody's watching that, You know everybody, and you
just and again, this is a playoff game Two's not
a random Tuesday night in February. Everybody's watching it. Speaking
of the Chiefs, are they watchable? We'll tell you
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